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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






2. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






3. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






4. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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5. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






6. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






7. English as a second language






8. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






9. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






10. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






11. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






12. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






13. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






14. Wide Range Achievement Test






15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






16. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






17. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






18. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






19. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






20. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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21. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






22. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






24. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






25. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






26. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






27. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






28. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






29. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






30. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






31. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






32. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






33. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






34. Open syllable






35. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






36. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






37. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






38. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






39. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






40. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






41. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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42. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






43. Multisensory Structured Language Education






44. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






45. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






46. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






47. State Board of Eduation






48. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






49. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






50. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.